So having been gone for the better part of a decade now, I’ve finally come back around to Freelancer. In the last few weeks I’ve been poking around the internet, and it does seem that there’s still a good degree of interest in this game (GOG, ModDB, Various Discord servers), even if there aren’t that many people playing it now.

I understand that there’s some pretty big technical and time-related hurdles to modernizing the Starport, although I’d love to see it active again, I think Freelancer’s glory days have been and gone, so it would probably be a pretty huge undertaking to even approach how things were.

Would anyone be interested in a bit of a community revival initiative? It would be pretty easy to get a centralised Discord server up for Freelancer and Freelancer modding-related things. I think there’s some fairly low-hanging fruit with regards to getting people engaged with the game and the community again.

Yeah, Discovery does seem to be the largest active community left, but there's lots of (very) little ones and a tiny modding scene still going. I feel like if you have a central point to get people around, it gives these places a chance to grow.

I'll see what I can get together a bit later today then! Will post the link here when I can.

I did reply to your DM by the way, but I have no idea if it got through! Seems like there might be some technical issues going on with them at the moment.

Well, I set up a Discord server. Need to think about how to organize things a bit, as well as fill out the resources and links pins. Does anyone have an up-to-date list of currently active Freelancer communities/servers?

I am actually pretty impressed by how many are online at that server.I think the mix of the discord server, the first FL fancampaign ever (even if only the demo) and an unified FL filebase provide a nice chance altogether. I think when each individual community becomes too small...we are bound to form a global community.